Hydrant



No. 6i2,94|. Patented Oct. 25, |898.

S. L. 'BARTHULOMEWJ HYDRANT.

(Application medreb. 7, lesa). um model.)

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SEYMOUR L. BARTHOLOMEW, OF ASBURY. PARK, NEW JERSEY.

HYDRANT.

SPECIFICATION forming part 0f Letters Patent N0. 612,941, dated October 25, 1898.

Application led February 7, 1898. Serial No. 669,397. (No model.)

To all whom, t may concern:

Be it known thatI, SEYMOUR L. BARrHoL- OMEW, a citizen of the United States, residing at Asbury Park, in the county of Monmouth and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in I-Iydrants; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specication.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in hydrants and in casings for the same; and in carrying out the present invention it is my purpose to construct a hydrant which will be free from valves or other obstructions which would impede the ready iiow of water from the same, the whole apparatus designed to be suitably incased and located either wholly or partially underneath the surface of the ground. i

More specifically, the present invention resides in the provision of a frost-casing embedded in the ground to a suitable depth, having means whereby the drip from the hydrant carried within the casing may escape, the said casing carrying the hydrant, which is mounted on the water-main which passes into the easing, and has suitable iiange connections with hose-couplings carried at the upper end of the tapering hydrant, the valve for regulating the supply of water being in a separate box and so arranged as notito interfere with the free flowing of the water from the couplings, which may be disposed at any y suitable angle to the upper flanged end of the hydrant.

The invention relates, further, to the novel construction, combination, and adaptation of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and then specifically defined in the appended claims.

My invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which, with the letters of reference marked thereon, form a part of this application, and in which drawings-- suitable material and is perforated at its lower end. The upper end of this casing is provided with a lid B, and extending through an aperture in the side of the casing is the water-main C, which curves upward in the casing and has laterally-extending flanges C about its upper end, to which the lower ilanged end of the tapering hydrant D may be bolted or otherwise suitably fastened. This hydrant D from its point of connection with the curved end of the main increases in diameter and at its upper end has a iange D', the circumference of which snugly fits the inner walls of the said frost-casing, as illustrated, and bolted or otherwise securely fastened to the enlarged end of the hydrant is a cap E, which has, preferably, the two hose-couplings E', which vare disposed at an angle to a perpendicular for convenience in the attachment of the hose-pipe, by which arrangement two pipes may be connected to the hydrant at the same time. The hydrant, with its flanged lid secured thereto, may be entirely out of sight and underneath the ground, as illustrated in the drawings; but, if preferred, the hydrant may extend above the ground, and the couplings may be arranged one above the other on the side of the hydrant in any suitable manner.

On the under side of the curved portion of the hydrant is au escape-pipe II, whereby the water which remains in the hydrant after the water-supply has been cut off mayeseape, the said pipe being provided with a suitable petcoek I-I', to which is connected an operating-rod K, which passes up through the frostcasing and within convenient reach at the upper end thereof. VIn order `to regulate the supply of water which is to be fed to the hydrant, a valve M is provided in a separate casing M', to which valve is connected an operating-rod N, access to which rod may be had through a covered portion through the casing containin g the said rod.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim to be new, and'desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In combination with the frost-casing IOO hose-couplings, the circumference of the said flan ge snugly fitting the inner circumference of the said casing, and the escape-pipe with 15 Valve-regulating rod, and means for regulating the supply of Water in the main, as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I afx my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

SEYMOUR L. BARTHOLOMEW. Witnesses:

SARAH H. ALLEN, DAVID HARVEY, J r. 

